Tight people and the things they do to save money

[8Ace]

Friend from university lives near Royston and works in Canary Wharf. Has paid his mortgage off but his house has no carpets and the only furniture is a bed a TV and a sofa.

He figures that he's not there very much so why should he bother?

[okgo]

anonymous said:

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I don't work in a stressful job, that's the key, decent cash, low stress. But if you want to tell yourself that everyone that does ok is working to the bone...

There's careful attitude to money, then there's being a fking weirdo like leaving a toilet full of piss, or selling bog roll to your mates, I mean what kind of person does that sort of thing!!!

[BoRED S2upid]

devnull said:

Not exactly scandalous, but a guy at work bought his first house, then rented the two remaining bedrooms out to people to help pay his mortgage. Would then come into work in a bad mood as the other tenants had made a ness, etc.

I can see his logic, but my first house was for me to enjoy my freedom, not to share my life around randoms.

I did this for years the tenants basically paid my mortgage when I was skint.

[Ari]

TheInternet said:

rgv250ads said:

These people have multiple investment and probably circa 150k dotted about in various pots.

gottans said:

Apparently he is a millionaire...

baldy1926 said:

I know someone ... he bought his last house for 200k with cash and is looking to buy another one as a cash purchase.

Gareth1974 said:

My mate has a reputation for being tight ... he paid his mortgage off by the age of 40 ... he's accrued c£400k in savings, and is packing in work at the end of the year.

Hmmmm

Indeed!

And here's another one to add to the list

LeeThr said:

Served the next person by which time she'd decided she was in fact going to buy it. Hardest decision of her life did she want a cake for about a £1. Paid for, in small change like everything else always is with her. She comes in and acts like she's hard up cash wise, but there's been times she's come in and been talking to people who she obviously knew about how she'd not long got back from various cruises and where she was going next.

My guess is that these are the tramps/eccentric millionaires that go into car showrooms to look at expensive cars, get shooed away then turn up the next day in a brand new Rolls Royce bought from across the road just to piss the salesman off'

Whilst also being the bloke who's a million billion trillionaire but drives a knackered old Volvo Estate/Land Rover/Saab. Wealth whispers you know!



Or it could just be that they are completely skint but people like to make up stories about the fact that really they're everso rich you know.

[jdw100]

rgv250ads said:

8. Flying on malaysian airways after recent tragic events, yes really.


Completely baffling behaviour.

Edited by rgv250ads on Thursday 5th March 20:52

Er, so did I last year - what's the problem? Two completely unrelated events.

Can't say the flights were heavily discounted or anything.

[Davey S2]

My fathers cousin used to take the battery out of his watch each night so it would last longer.

[Dog Star]

Evoluzione said:

I don't know how you can re-use a cut cable tie. Go in with the sharp end of a blade, hold up the little locking ratchet tab and push the tie back through the block. Then you can re-use them.

Nono - I simply cut the tie where it goes into the locking part; then you simply pull the "used" bit through and discard. You're left with a slightly shorter cable tie.

Evoluzione said:

I've been doing my garden lately and went round to get some compost as I know they've got a huge heap of it and at over 70 and a bit frail he's unlikely to use much, "don't take any more!" he warned me when i'd filled a couple of bags.
Yeah Dad, you don't give st away!

My dad is the same.
They don't have a wood fire. Last year they had 8 big (think 100') trees cut down, and a lot of building work. They have kept the wood. There are logs and lumber and other wood stacked around the garden - I am talking TONS of the stuff, logs great for burning, quite a lot of stuff suitable for DIY. It's all there getting wet and ruined. Massive piles of it.

He won't give me a stick of it. Not a splinter.

[RobinOakapple]

I once worked for a guy who was thinking of getting his widowed mother a new SUV. Well, not actually new, because of the depreciation on the new ones. Nothing wrong with that, you might say, until you knew how rich this guy is. More than half way up the Sunday Times Rich List.

[IvanSTi]

slipstream 1985 said:

anonymous said:

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No wonder you're poor. Can't even multiply properly. £5x 225 days is £1125

Shhhhh I was going to propose to take his £13,500 a year and courier him a meal every day for lunch.

[fido]

Print your own Rail Tickets?

Okay, my own legal methods - and I'm quite ashamed to admit this as a City worker ..




.. collecting 30p off Boots Meal Deal vouchers.

[whatleytom]

Davey S2 said:

My fathers cousin used to take the battery out of his watch each night so it would last longer.

Wow, why not just wear an automatic.

[Sargeant Orange]

A guy we used to work with reused the same tea bag all day. Not sure how many cups he actually got out of one bag but I know he nearly had a breakdown one day when someone hid it.

The same guy only used his central heating between the 1st December & 31st January when the thermostat was set to 16c for an hour in the evening.

He would also put coppers into any collection going around so it made it seem like he contributed

He was scottish

[IvanSTi]

anonymous said:

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Well someone clearly needs to word their sentences better.

[thismonkeyhere]

whatleytom said:

Davey S2 said:

My fathers cousin used to take the battery out of his watch each night so it would last longer.

Wow, why not just wear an automatic.

Or just pull the crown out - will stop most analogue quartz watches.

[HarryW]

[broad brush mode; with lots of references to 'they']

IMHE these tend to the people that still have their childhood toy cars in the packaging, untouched, unfathomable for a normal child me thinks. They go to be the type that when you go for a lads curry night, sit there at the end of the night and state 'I didn't have a starter and only 2 beers, so my portion of the bill is x' instead of an equal split between n friends. It's easier to do when you are socially impaired and that's what friends do anyway.

Likewise they always seem to be putting off spending as they are saving up for the future all because they are going to do XYZ when they retire etc. The amount of friends I have known that have died in their 40/50/60's having never done XYZ is frightening. It benefits those who inherit from your estate granted, but why put off to tomorrow what you can do today, you never know what tomorrow brings. It's not a bad attitude to have, not saying you should be a spendthrift, just don't plan it to the nth degree and think it’s definitely going benefit you in your lifetime..

All very very sad really.
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[BorkFactor]

I am a student, as are most of my friends, so have seen a few over the years.

- Stealing toilet roll from the library
- Never using the heating under ANY circumstances, when it is really cold they go to the library
- Putting dirty dishes in the shower, and putting them back in the cupboard once they have had a shower
- Living off 12p Aldi super noodles
- All food is eaten cold once cooked
- Stuffing pockets with ketchup sachets at McDonalds, loading up on sugar sachets etc
- Will only drink the cheapest alcohol - Frosty Jacks or vodka that actually freezes
- Removing old guitar strings, boiling them in a pan / kettle, then putting them back on. On a Gibson SG!!
- Using empty pot noodles as glasses / bowls

Now, I am all for not wasting money but that is ridiculous. I am by no means wealthy but I have never felt the need to subject myself to that!

[Bullett]

An elderly relative was tight, always had been. Hardly had the heating on, house falling to pieces, never went away.
He died recently, had £250k in the bank.

[BorkFactor]

anonymous said:

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Seriously.

Needless to say I never ate or drank anything at that flat again! I only found out about it when I popped over for a coffee on my walk back, used the bathroom, and asked why there was a mound of dirty dishes in the shower. He didn't even flinch when I asked him about it, totally straight faced!

[Philplop]

That's disgusting.

They'd get covered in piss.

[kev1974]

Not seen anyone mention charging up a USB powerbank battery thing at the office during the day and then taking it home to charge the family's gadgets overnight. I know someone that does this, effectively taking a little bit of her employer's electricity home each day